Abstract: Moving window method to investigate the condition of coordinating integration in text-reading was used. Subjects were freshmen in South China Normal University. Relationship between the elaboration on a characteristic of the protagonist and subsequent target action carried out by the protagonist was Independent Variable, which had three levels in experiment 1—consistent version, coordinately consistent version, and qualified version, and which had two levels in experiment 2—coordinately consistent version and qualified version. The reading time of target sentences was analyzed with ANOVA in experiment 1, the results showed that partial inconsistence is enough and necessary condition in coordinating integration. The reading time of two target sentences in different places respectively was analyzed with Paired-Samples T Test in experiment 2, the results showed that through coordinating integration, not only the coherence of text-reading was maintained, but also the relative background information was constructed to be an information chunk, and a processing theory of bi-mechanism for text-reading was suggested, which proposed that normal reading included both flowing reading and integrating reading.

Key words: text-reading, background information, coordinating integration, coherence, constructing